Paranormal Activity it ain't, but for anyone remotely scared on their lonesome, this is a good way to remind us that celebrities – or people on obscure TV channels – are just like us: indulging their daftness to the point of comic horror.

His current set mixes well-crafted stories about the idiocies of his straitlaced dad with an acknowledgement of his own daftness in being snapped by the News Of The World snorting coke outside a nightclub.

Jason Cook: The End (Part 1), On tourDespite hailing from Newcastle and working in the merchant navy prior to taking up comedy, Cook's no tough guy: what he offers instead is a mixture of laddish daftness and genuine warmth.